Species Detail - Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Local Biodiversity Action Fund (LBAF) Database".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Vanessa atalanta
Red Admiral
NHMSYS0000504624 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
vaata
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Insect - butterfly
Species
1
1
1
29/07/2025
29/07/2025
1 January (recorded in 1976)
21 December (recorded in 2016)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Local Biodiversity Action Fund (LBAF) Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), accessed 25 February 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/441/Species/77379

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)